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Archer Maclean, the Glossary

Archer Maclean (28 January 1962 – 17 December 2022) was a British video game programmer.^[1]

26 relations: Archer Maclean's Mercury, Archer Maclean's Pool, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, Cue sports, Defender (1981 video game), Dropzone, Halcyon Days (book), International Karate, International Karate +, Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker, Jimmy White's 2: Cueball, Jimmy White's Cueball World, Mercury Meltdown, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Pool Paradise, Porting, Retro Gamer, Snooker, SpeedZone (video game), Stargate (1981 video game), Video game, Video game developer, Video game programmer, Wii.

Archer Maclean's Mercury

Archer Maclean's Mercury is a 2005 puzzle-platform game for the PlayStation Portable developed by the eponymous British game programmer, Archer Maclean and Awesome Studios.

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Archer Maclean's Pool

Archer Maclean's Pool is a video game designed and produced by Archer Maclean, published by Virgin Games in 1992 for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS.

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Atari 8-bit computers

The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800.

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The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Cue sports

Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Defender (1981 video game)

Defender is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Williams Electronics in 1980 and released as an arcade video game in 1981.

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Dropzone

Dropzone is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Archer Maclean (under the name Arena Graphics) for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1984 by U.S. Gold.

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Halcyon Days (book)

Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997.

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International Karate

International Karate is a fighting game developed and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and ported to various home computers over the following years.

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International Karate +

International Karate +, stylized as IK+, is a fighting game written by Archer Maclean and published in 1987 by System 3 for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum. Archer Maclean and International Karate + are Golden Joystick Award winners.

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Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker

Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker is a video game designed and produced by Archer Maclean, released by Virgin Games in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and IBM PC compatibles (later for the Mega Drive). Archer Maclean and Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker are Golden Joystick Award winners.

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Jimmy White's 2: Cueball

Jimmy White's 2: Cueball is a snooker and pool video game developed by Awesome Developments and published by Virgin Interactive as a sequel to Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker.

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Jimmy White's Cueball World

Jimmy White's Cueball World is a sports simulation video game published by Virgin Interactive as the sequel to Jimmy White's 2: Cueball, itself a sequel to Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker.

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Mercury Meltdown

Mercury Meltdown is a puzzle-platform game for the PlayStation Portable (PSP).

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Pool Paradise

Pool Paradise is a 2004 pocket billiards video game, developed by Awesome Studios, and published by Ignition Entertainment, released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and GameCube.

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Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

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Retro Gamer

Retro Gamer is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games.

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Snooker

Snooker (pronounced) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.

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SpeedZone (video game)

Wheelspin, known as SpeedZone in America, is a futuristic racing video game for Wii, developed by British developer Awesome Play and published by Detn8 Games in North America and Bethesda Softworks in Europe.

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Stargate (1981 video game)

Stargate is a horizontally scrolling shooter released as an arcade video game in 1981 by Williams Electronics.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Maclean

Also known as Archer Mclean, Arena Graphics.

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